President Obama’s fourth budget has now been released, which allows for a relatively full accounting of deficit spending during his four years in office. The picture isn’t pretty, but it is revealing. >>>

>>> deficit spending during Obama’s four years in the White House (based on his own figures) will be an estimated $5.170 trillion — or $5,170,000,000,000.00.

To help put that colossal sum of money into perspective, if you take our deficit spending under Obama and divide it evenly among the roughly 300 million American citizens, that works out to just over $17,000 per person — or about $70,000 for a family of four.

The previous record for most deficit spending during a presidency was set by President George W. Bush (see table 1.3 in the White House’s Historic Tables). During Bush’s 8-year administration, total deficit spending was $3.402 trillion. That’s a truly extraordinary and reckless sum. It’s also $1.768 trillion less than deficit spending in just four years under Obama. Per year, deficits under Bush averaged $425 billion. Per year, deficits under Obama (according to his own numbers) will average $1.293 trillion — or more than three times as much.

Under Pres GWBush unemployment was a disaster. But under 0bamas tenure it has been "an enlightening experience". A little "news speak" lingo there.

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02-21-2012, 01:48 PM

AmPat

But he is the most intelligent president we've ever had. He is so far above our ability to understand him, that explains his inability to speak without halting continuously looking for difficult and classy words like "we weed up," Korpsman, etc. He is simply misunderstood and if we saw his college transcripts, we would know that.:rolleyes: